35 Facts About Phil Driscoll

Phil Driscoll was born on November 9,1947 and is a trumpeter, singer, composer, and producer.

Phil Driscoll has won three Dove Awards for his music, and the 1999 Christian Country Music Association Award for Best Musician.

Phil Driscoll was born in Seattle, Washington, and when he was a small child his family moved to Spokane, where his father pastored a small church and his mother played hymns on the piano and organ.

Phil Driscoll played a small plastic trumpet to accompany his father's preaching.

At six Phil Driscoll was given a steel guitar, and won many talent contests while still a child.

The family subsequently moved to Lancaster, Texas, where Phil Driscoll's father became chief of maintenance for the Lancaster school system.

Phil Driscoll began playing the trumpet, and by the sixth grade was performing in the Lancaster High School band.

The family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1959, where Phil Driscoll's father resumed the ministry.

Phil Driscoll became principal trumpet and featured soloist in the Tulsa Youth Symphony.

Phil Driscoll then attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas under a music scholarship, where he formed the university's first jazz band.

Phil Driscoll won the All American College Show musical competition on CBS, beating out even The Carpenters, and was booked on a USO show touring in Asia.

Phil Driscoll eventually became increasingly dissatisfied with his rock and roll lifestyle, and on Christmas morning in 1977, he and his fiancee became born again Christians.

Phil Driscoll established Mighty Horn Ministries, his contemporary Christian music business, which he shared on television.

Phil Driscoll released an instrumental-only album of hymns, Classic Hymns, in 1988, backed by the London National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Phil Driscoll was voted the Readers' Choice Favorite Instrumentalist in both 1990 and 1991 by Charisma magazine.

In 1996, Phil Driscoll built a recording studio, Most High Studios, on a farm in Tennessee.

Phil Driscoll began The Voice of Praise, a television ministry broadcast on the Inspiration Network, and released the album A Different Man, which included the hit ballad "Christ Remains".

Phil Driscoll turned to country music with his 1998 album, Shine the Light.

In 2008, Phil Driscoll released the album Songs in the Key of Worship, which includes his vocal and trumpet performance of the classic hymn "I Surrender All", accompanied by guitar.

Phil Driscoll released the album Here and Now in 2008.

Phil Driscoll continues to perform, minister, and work in a variety of media and locations, including completing his film.

Phil Driscoll performed at Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993, and at the 1993 lighting of the National Christmas Tree, and sang and played "America the Beautiful" at the dedication ceremony for the Clinton Presidential Center presidential library in Little Rock.

Phil Driscoll performed at the Democratic National Conventions in 1988,1992,1996, and 2000.

On Presidents Day in 2000, Phil Driscoll sang and played "God Bless America" at the Medal of Honor ceremony, at the request of Secretary of Defense William Cohen.

Phil Driscoll is known for his bluesy and varied style, which he infuses into gospel, inspirational, and patriotic songs.

Phil Driscoll is widely known as being a rare white singer who sings in a convincing black gospel style.

Phil Driscoll is an accomplished pilot, with commercial, instrument and multi engine ratings.

In January 1978, Phil Driscoll was one of 32 people indicted by a Texas federal grand jury on charges of being part of a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.

Phil Driscoll was arrested after nineteen federal agents surrounded his home during a sting operation stemming from a government wiretap.

Phil Driscoll was charged with three felony counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, but was eventually allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession.

Phil Driscoll was placed on probation and his criminal record later expunged.

Phil Driscoll said in a 1986 newspaper interview that he was "doing a lot of drugs", and he was reported to have had a $5,000-dollar a day cocaine habit, prior to his religious conversion and subsequent arrest.

The Driscolls ministry took in as much as $2.8 million annually, and according to the prosecution, Phil Driscoll owned an airplane, drove a Porsche, and used money funneled through Mighty Horn Ministries, to buy and sell lake houses.

Phil Driscoll performed at an Evangelicals for Trump event in Cincinnati in March 2020.

Phil Driscoll was a featured musician at the Democratic National Convention in 1992,1996 and the 2000 Democratic National Convention.